For women wearing the enveloping burqa, their vision of the world has to be reduced and fragmented by little nets right in front of their eyes. The burqa makes them faceless, anonymous and expressionless. They seem mute, cold, inhospitable, repressed, living in a totally different world. But observe the gesture of the mothers watching their children play, and you know that, behind the garment, they are actually the same human souls, who share the very humanly feelings of love and curiosity.
Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, 2008